Lula's candidate wins party support in Brazil vote

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chosen candidate won the support of the country's largest political party on Wednesday, giving her presidential bid a much-needed boost. The centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, endorsed in principle the candidacy of Lula's chief of staff Dilma Rousseff in the October 2010 election. "Both parties by mutual agreement reached a preliminary commitment toward the presidential election in 2010," the PMDB said in a joint statement with Lula's Workers' Party. The deal has yet to be approved by conventions of both parties. Under the accord, the PMDB, which is already part of Lula's governing coalition, would put up Rousseff's running mate for vice-president and participate in drafting her government platform. "It's the first step to consolidate... [read full story]                    

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